>soulseek is just as good as what.cd I swear
>>63350475
I can't seem to understand what you're implying.
>>63350523
he got a badly transcoded rip from soulseek
>>63350475
>implying you could hear the difference
you're probably going to reply to this and claim you do so you can continue to live in denial
>>63350475
l2slskn00b
>>63350523
>the human ear can't hear over 128kbps but I want to take up more file space just because
>.mp3
wahey look at that ceiling
Not like you could really hear the difference
>>63350475
>Muh music collection takes up 5x the space on my computer even though it contains the same amount of music, therefore it is superior
just seen that .mp3
What the shitting cunt did you expect OP, MP3 doesn't go higher than 320
>I can hear a sound at -100db at 20khz when much louder sounds are playing
Lel who gives a shit, op?
worrying about audio fidelity past 192 is useless
this one isn't bad
I surprised by amount of reasonable people blowing op the fuck out
>>63350580
>ear can't hear over 128kbps
>hear
>kbps
>>63350736
Wouldn't it be nice to be able to sucker punch people who have retarded opinions as quoted in the quote?
>>63350703
>you can buy headphones for like $10 at Walgreens why would anyone spend more for the same thing?
Just use Spotify lmao
>lol I'm so patrician I have this CD who cares if I don't know how to take care of it
>lol it's the 90s I can't turn Seinfeld off one second to record this stinking album
>ever downloading mp3s
if you're gonna pirate, only download flacs. that way you don't have to worry about if it's a transcode. even if it's a transcode, it'll be easy to tell. with mp3s you're not sure if the person just re-encoded 320kbps three times or something
>>63351399
Unless it's on what.cd you ponce
>>63351467
again, like i said:
if it's a 320kbps mp3 transcoded multiple times in 320kbps (e.g. 320kbps stream recorded), it's really hard to tell the difference
you'd be guessing because it'd be like 20.2k cutoff vs 20.5k cutoff
besides, if you're autistic enough to get what.cd you should be downloading flacs
>>63351545
if you can't tell the difference what do u care?
>>63351593
i can tell the difference. those sound a little off
this is why i don't even bother with mp3 or aac files anymore, i just get the flac (CD rip) whenever possible
>>63351545
I'm not motivated to transcode everything I get to 320 or V0 just so it'll fit on my MP3 player. I just trust what.cd for that.
>>63350580
Most people can distinguish 128 kbps from higher bitrates. 192 kbps is usually considered transparent, though it obviously depends on the listener and their equipment — tests have shown that even 160 kbps is transparent to most listeners. Nobody has proved that they were able to make a distinction between 320 kbps and lossless as far as I know (though many people believe they are).
>>63350475
Just download FLACs from Soulseek, convert them and you'll be fine. Without having to worry about ratios, which is the main advantage of Soulseek.
>>63352037
>download FLACs from soulseek
Dis right here 3bh famtano
>>63352037
>>63352199
You're going to have to do a spectral on it too to ensure it wasn't transcoded back up to lossless.
>>63350475
>my mom bought me giant headphones and now I call myself an audiophile
>look at this meaningless shit
>all these people saying "durr you can't tell the difference anyway"
This is only true if you're not listening on high end equipment, which admittedly is often the case. However, if you're listening to quality studio monitors in a treated room, for example, the difference between a 320kbps mp3 and a FLAC is clearly discernable, and between 192 and FLAC is like night and day. It really depends on your listening environment.
Also, respectable clubs won't let DJs play anything below 320
people who claim they can hear the difference between 320 and FLAC are such utter cunts
also
i never understand why people do this shit >>63352609. why on earth would you make a transcode - i just don't get it
>>63352609
Just get ones with .log files. You know the niggas for real then.
>>63350475
Nice meme, I'll bite.
I check all my shit with spek after it's downloaded. It's quite rare that I have these kind of issues at all. Soulseek is excellent and has had literally every album I ever have needed.
It all depends on who uploaded it. I always grab a 320 copy with reasonable file sizes that match the other files shared by people, or if there are none or the only 320 copy has issues on the spectrogram, I get FLAC and turn it into 320, which is the most reliable option.
>>63354875
If you're converting for personal use anyway why would you voluntarily create such a bloated file as a 320k MP3?
This is 128kbps.
>>63350475
>>63350580
>>63351055
looks fine to me pham
>>63355018
Thats funny, because mp3 has a cutoff at 20khz, 128kbps lowers that to around 16 or 18khz
does anyone here download FLAC but then compress it 320kbps? Saw an anon claim to do this in a thread long ago was wondering what other people think of this or if they do it
>>63350659
>02 好き好き大好き.mp3
my nigga
>>63356661
For MP3 maybe
>>63356895
v0 for personal listening, flac for making dj mixes
>>63357067
Name a codec that does(unless its opus, since I have little experience with it)
>>63357329
>Name a codec that does(unless its opus, since I have little experience with it)
>06 - ちはるの恋.opus.png (330 KB, 944x593)
Dude...
>>63357329
Here's Vorbis encoded at ~128k with VBR enabled. I normally bump it a level to Q5~160k when dealing with Vorbis, just to be safe.
Why do people still fuck with this placebo shit
Headphone/gear quality is pretty much everything. You can hear defects in 128kbps with better equipment, but when you jump from dollar store headphones to decent cans, even the shittiest files will sound better
>>63357760
I know you like using the word placebo, but this isn't a FLAC thread. You can tell the difference between 128kbps MP3 and the same bitrate in most other formats having only spent around $20 on headphones, and can certainly notice when your 320 is a transcode from something less.
>>63358431
Damn you're right, I'm drunk. Transcodes suck, carry on.
Only someone who is truly autistic would turn down a hard to find album because it doesnt have a high bitrate
>>63358629
Sorry pal it's 2016 every album worth listening to has already been reissued on CD and is on What.CD.
>>63358629
>only someone who is truly autistic would turn down food just because it was a little bit rotten
>>63358661
more like every surface level album reviewed by pitchfork is on wcd
but finding niche stuff is really difficult, and wcd punishes people who need it because of their horribly bottlenecked seeds
>>63358730
>he managed to get himself on ratio watch
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>>63358811
No. The site just has a shitty selection of niche stuff that isn't experimental music, and no way to effectively gain back ratio from rare stuff. I'm not going to download p4k-core albums or rip shit from bandcamp just to stay even.
now this is autism!
>>63358672
Now say the food is some extinct butterfly fro the amazon
Plebs
>>63358730
sounds like yr trying to say that things are only obscure if they're not on what
also lol
are you 14?
>>63358886
>>63358886
That. Is. Hilarious. I'd like to thank you for the work you're doing. You're a hero to female entertainers everywhere.
>>63358886
Christ that's pitiful. I didn't have to do what you're describing. Try abusing freeleech or having a computer that you can run your client on often. Or just purchase a seedbox for a brief period and abuse that
>>63359016
>pay money to pirate
autism
>>63359339
You can't think of any other reason you'd want to have access to a virtual private server for a month or so? I have several reasons. You probably wouldn't understand them.
>>63350475
plenty of transcodes go up on what, but the community is a bit more diligent when it comes to assessing and reporting them (particularly with higher profile releases)
>>63358886
I paid $7 for a seedbox during a freeleech and I'm pretty much set for life. Just downloaded a bunch of popular collages and let it run for a month.
>>63358886
Oops, pic related
>>63359556
>>63353456
>why do people troll on the internet.
>>63357760
>he only hears music.
true mark of a pleb.
>>63352037
What does transparent mean in this context
>>63361705
be able to trick you more than a third of the time on an ABX test against FLAC using a $50 headset is what I've been going with.
>>63353454
>Also, respectable clubs won't let DJs play anything below 320
Why not? Can you actually tell the difference with the booming bass and all the background noise?
>>63361881
Have you ever in your life spent more than $10 on audio equipment?
This is why you buy shit and tras de with other people who buy shit you retarded fuck.
>complaining about free files when you buy jack
Kys you spoiled shit stain
>>63361943
Trade*
